NSW pollies fire back at PM for gas claims

All sides of NSW politics have rejected the prime minister's criticism of the state's gas projects, saying the problem is in Canberra.

It comes after Malcolm Turnbull received two reports showing the expected national gas shortfall for 2018 was more than three times larger than projected earlier in the year, and he pushed for the east coast states to develop more gas fields.

He said on Monday the NSW government was not moving quickly enough on approving the Narrabri Gas Project in the state's north.

He says the Narrabri project didn't have a social licence and even if it was approved it would not solve a gas crisis created by policy failure to protect the domestic gas market from unregulated exports.